Letters

Editor, Where do Candidates in the Provincial Election stand regarding the controversial TCE Pumped Storage Project that threatens Georgian Bay waters? It appears that NO ONE wants to talk about it, perhaps because it is located on Federal Land - a move made by the Trans Canada Energy Corporation to escape from having to perform an Environmental Assessment under the Laws...

Editor, If you’re working for a living, you should be making a living wage. If you’re not making a living wage (at least $20 an hour) you can’t afford to buy healthy food, let alone an electric vehicle. You can’t afford a decent place to rent, let alone a good house with solar panels on the roof. You can’t afford to...

Editor, I was in attendance at the public meeting May 16, and I think your assessment of the Trowbridge/Bayfield development proposal is on the mark. However, I disagree with the notion that we cannot reject development proposals as they come in the door. By allowing this particular overreaching proposal to enter the process, we not only wasted staff and council time...

Editor, As a Ukrainian-born Canadian, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizers, teachers and especially the wonderful students of the Georgian Bay Community School who had held a school fundraiser in April, to support the people of Ukraine. Your enthusiasm and school spirit showed me that there is still a lot of love for your fellow...

Editor, Thank you to David Glass for the letter to the editor in last week's issue about the puzzling dog feces along the Georgian Trail. Our situation is much more personal as we are finding dog feces bags along the road side edge of our wooded residential property on Centre Street. There is no puzzle here. These are being thrown deliberately into...

Editor, TC Energy is proposing a state-of-the-art 1000 MW pumped storage facility in Meaford, Ontario, adjacent to Georgian Bay to provide flexible, clean, and renewable energy to Ontario’s electricity system, using industry leading technologies. They recently announced that they are looking to Hatch, to provide reservoir safety expertise and advisory services for the development of this transformative project. This scope...

Dear Editor, It is ironic that the very day several Meaford residents participated in our May 7 clean up our local NDP candidate blitzed public spaces with election signs. I'm sure all candidates will add signs of their own. I think it is high time we stop this wasteful practice completely. Confine these signs to homeowners who request them. Although candidates...

Editor, You seem cranked up on electric vehicles so much so you forget about the best way to get around other than by bicycles, that is hydrogen and oxygen which was invented in 1807. I suppose logic lost its way. 500 km of travel then refuel in a matter of minutes sounds better than overnight charging stations. Much like wind farms...

Editor, Considering you are a fisherman, your love of cormorants surprises me. Perhaps you should do some research into the feeding habits of this bird and there is a good chance you will change your mind. It is estimated there are about 230,000 cormorants around the Great Lakes, each eating an estimated 1.3 to 1.6 pounds of fish a day. That...

Editor, There is a puzzling situation that has developed on the Georgian Trail, running east from Swarthmore Drive, in the past month. Someone who is using the trail is tying up plastic bags containing dog feces to the trees lining the trail. Perhaps this is from a dog that this person is walking, or this individual is bagging up feces...